Neuropsychiatria i Neuropsychologia
November 30, 2017
K. Rygiel
Choroby zwizane ze stresem stanowi rosnce obcienie dla systemu opieki zdrowotnej i dla spoeczestwa. Aby zaspokoi biece potrzeby w tym zakresie poszukiwane s innowacyjne, bezpieczne i skuteczne metody, do ktrych nale midzy innymi techniki relaksacyjne. W szczeglnoci medytacja transcedentalna (transcendental meditation -TM) i redukcja stresu oparta na uwanoci (mindfulness-based stress reduction...
Imagination, Cognition and Personality
November 27, 2017
James M. Honeycutt
Research has demonstrated the health benefits of a wide range of spiritual practices such as meditation and prayer, and similar nonspiritual practices like mindfulness. Shamanism is a spiritual practice that uses dream recall during ecstatic trances, and scientific research has shown health benefits of dream recall. Researchers have long realized the importance of intrapersonal communication...
Filozofska istraživanja
November 23, 2017
Olga Nikolić
SažetakTekst istražuje pravac u suvremenoj fenomenologiji i kognitivnoj znanosti koji teži inter disciplinarnoj suradnji dvije discipline.Pažljivim proučavanjem konstitutivne uloge živog tijela (Leib) za svijest i kogniciju, autori poput Varele, Thompsona, Gallaghera i Zahavija razvijaju novu istraživačku paradigmu da bi na originalan način nadišli tradicionalni du alizam duha i tijela.Najprije...
Routledge eBooks
November 22, 2017
Eric Carlton
Psychologists and others have become particularly intrigued by what are commonly referred to as altered states of consciousness, more technically known as dissociative states. There is very little evidence one way or another for supposing that genetic/other biological/hereditary factors might predispose a person to dissociative reactions which may take many forms. The paranormal is not a coping...
November 22, 2017
Martti Nissinen
Abstract The prophetic performance is typically associated with a specific state of mind variously called ecstasy, trance, or possession. This chapter demonstrates that an altered state of consciousness appears as a prerequisite of the prophetic performance in ancient Near Eastern, Greek, and biblical texts. One of the designations of Mesopotamian prophets, muḫḫûm/maḫḫû, implies an ecstatic...
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
November 18, 2017
Kåre Stokholm Poulsgaard
25 citations
The nature of creative engagement with computers and software presents a number of challenges to 4E cognition and requires the development of analytical frameworks that can encompass cognitive processes as they extend across material and informational realms. Here I argue that an enactive view of mind allows for better understanding of digital practice by advancing a dynamic, transactional, and...
Quaderns de Filosofia
November 17, 2017
Marta Jorba
Cognitive phenomenology Resum: La naturalesa i les característiques del pensament conscient han ocupat la filosofia i altres ciències al llarg de la història. Darrerament, però, ha sorgit la pregunta per les propietats fenomèniques del pensament, això és, pel caràcter qualitatiu de les experiències del pensar o el que s’ha anomenat ‘fenomenologia cognitiva’. L’existència d’aquest tipus de...
November 15, 2017
Evan Thompson
This paper is the text of a keynote lecture for the conference "Buddhism, Mind, and Cognitive Science" at the University of California, Berkeley, April 25, 2014. The main proposition is that the Buddhism-cognitive science encounter needs to be fundamentally reoriented in order to have a chance of becoming a genuine dialogue. At present, the encounter takes its direction from scientific research...
November 15, 2017
Evan Thompson
This paper is a commentary on Dan Arnold's book, Brains, Buddhas, and Believing: The Problem of Intentionality in Classical Buddhist and Cognitive-Scientific Philosophy of Mind, presented at the Toshide Numata Book Prize Symposium, "Taking Buddhist Philosophy of Mind Seriously," University of California, Berkeley, November 15, 2013.
Brain Connectivity
November 13, 2017
Elena Bilevicius, Stephen Dale Smith, Jennifer Kornelsen
61 citations
Mindfulness refers to attending to moment-to-moment experiences with acceptance and no judgment. Several scales have been developed to quantify different components of mindfulness. The Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS) is particularly sensitive to trait mindfulness and is proposed to measure the attentional component of mindfulness. The purpose of this study was to identify the neural...